FALMOUTH — Stanley Taylor Bennett II, 64, former chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Oakhurst Dairy, died Feb. 23 in Scarborough after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was born in 1947, in Portland, a son of Donald Huston and Lucia Pond Bennett. He attended Portland schools and graduated from Deering High […]

TOPSHAM — Bertrand R. Labbe, 84, died Feb. 20 at the Freeport Nursing Home surrounded by his loving family. On July 9, 1926, he was born in Wallagrass, the son of John J. and Leda (Gagnon) Labbe. During World War II he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served until he was honorably discharged in […]

BRUNSWICK — Charles E. Greif, Sr., of Brunswick, died Feb. 19.   Born in Englewood, N.J., on Nov. 2, 1915, he was the only son of Sylvia Sullinger and Charles Greif. In 1933 he graduated from Morristown High School in New Jersey and attended Cornell University, where he served in the ROTC program.  He graduated […]

BRUNSWICK — Philip Ouellette, 100, died Feb. 20 at Mid Coast Hospital. Born April 20, 1910, in Brunswick, he was a son of Cyprien and Marie Ann Plourde Ouellette. On Oct. 2, 1939, he married Germaine Dugal. Over the years he owned Phil’s Lunch on Maine Street in Brunswick, worked in construction and at Bath […]

BRUNSWICK — Jane V. Yacano, 83, died at her home Feb. 19 from cancer. Born April 1, 1927, she grew up in Lewiston, the eldest of five children of Albert and Yvette Cloutier Pinard of Lewiston. Her career as a stitcher in leather goods spanned most of her adult life, and she was proud to […]

BRUNSWICK — Ralph W. Labbe, 98, died peacefully Feb. 18 at his home with his daughter Prisca by his side.   Born in Biddeford on Jan. 20, 1913, the older son of Frank and Ernestine (Pruneau) Labbe, he graduated from Biddeford High School in 1932. In 1935 he married his high school sweetheart, Madeline Paquin. […]

YARMOUTH — Alan Peter Phillips, 82, died at his home Feb. 3.   Born in Kent, England, on Nov. 12, 1928, he was the youngest son of Constance and Ernest Phillips and served in the Royal Navy.   In 1952 he immigrated to Cornwall, Ontario, with his wife June (Huxford), brother Frank and some close […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — John M. Pulsifer, 74, a legendary car dealer best known as “Jolly John,” died Feb. 19 at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough as a result of pancreatic cancer. According to Jim Boldebook of the Creative Broadcast Concepts automobile advertising agency in Biddeford, who created the slogan “I’m not Jolly unless […]

FREEPORT — Robert D. “Chet” Logan, 49, died Feb. 5 following a long illness. Born in Trenton, N.J., a son of Dorothy and Robert Logan, they moved to Maine in 1973, where he attended Foxcroft Academy in Dover-Foxcroft. After graduating from Foxcroft Academy he attended New York University School of the Arts.   Over the […]

POWNAL — Paul Maynard Bennett, of Delray Beach, Fla., died Feb. 17 surrounded by family after a courageous battle with cancer. Born in Freeport on April 30, 1935, he was the son of William Edward Bennett and Georgia Anna Reed Bennett. In 1953 he graduated from Freeport High School, where he met his wife of […]